Category: Lectures & Talks
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Book Talk Impressions
Retrospective on the book presentation of The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU, exploring the remarkable history of the Belgian Friendship Building, a modernist structure designed under the direction of Henry van de Velde, originally created for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York and later given a…
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Vernacular Logics in Modernist Design: Eileen Gray and Margaret Leischner
Paula Arning presents her paper, ‘Vernacular Logics in Modernist Design: Eileen Gray and Margaret Leischner’ at the VAF 2026 Annual Meeting in Walla Walla, Washington, from 27–30 May 2026. https://www.vafweb.org/page-1821971
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An Architectural Network of Women’s Labor: The Turkish Charity Association
Dr Ipek Mehmetoglu presents her paper, ‘An Architectural Network of Women’s Labor: The Turkish Charity Association,’ at the VAF 2026 Annual Meeting in Walla Walla, Washington, from 27–30 May 2026. https://www.vafweb.org/page-1821971
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Book Talk: The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU
Kathleen James-Chakraborty participates in a book lecture on The Belgian Friendship Building: From the New York World’s Fair to a Virginia HBCU, together with Katherine M. Kuenzli, at the Boekentoren (Ghent University Library) on 25 February 2026. Date: 25 February 2026, 18:30Location: Boekentoren, Ghent University Library Registration required: https://boekentoren.gent/en/articles/book-talk-the-belgian-friendship-building-from-the-new-york-worlds-fair-to-a-virginia-hbcu
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Ethel Bailey Furman and the Struggle for Design Credit
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper ‘Ethel Bailey Furman and the Struggle for Design Credit’ at the III International Congress: Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes — Architecture, Cities, Labour, taking place 11–13 February at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
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From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents her paper, ‘From the Belgian Pavilion to the Belgian Friendship Building: A Remnant of New York’s 1939 World’s Fair,’ at the ISIE Speaker Series on January 22, 2026. https://www.isie-global.org/
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Building for Democracy or Dictatorship?: Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s United States Chancery and Residence in Asunción, Paraguay
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presented her paper Building for Democracy or Dictatorship?: Chloethiel Woodard Smith’s United States Chancery and Residence in Asunción, Paraguay at the Diplomatic Interiors conference, held at ETH Zurich, on 19–21 November 2025. The full programme can be found here: https://diplomaticinteriors.ethz.ch/program.html
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Ethel Power’s Editorship of House Beautiful
Kathleen James-Chakraborty will present a talk titled ‘Ethel Power’s Editorship of House Beautiful: Empowering Women’s Engagement with Architecture‘ at the Zhejiang University School of Art and Archaeology on 17 October 2025.
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Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere Today
Kathleen James-Chakraborty presents the keynote lecture Beyond Britain: Writing Architectural History Elsewhere Today at the SAHGB’s symposium Architectural Historiography in the British Isles: National and International Perspectives. Nearly half a century after Mark Girouard published Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, the idea that historians of architecture should analyse society as well…
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SAH 79th Annual International Conference, Mexico City, 15-19 April 2026
Dr Cláudia de Souza Libânio will be presenting at the SAH 79th International Conference in Mexico City. Participatory Practices Led by Women in Architectural Education Participatory practices have emerged as a representative field of activity for women architects who work toward building more inclusive, just, and sustainable societies. In fields historically dominated by men, such…
Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture 